Memory: Horcruxes (Book 6, Chapter 23)
Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Vanessa and Casper explore the theme of Memory in chapter twenty-three of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. This week Casper and Vanessa discuss Harry’s resemblance to Tom Riddle, Dumbledore’s impending doom, and their different theories of the soul. Throughout the episode we consider the question: what’s our theory of the difference between a memory and a story we tell ourselves?
Thanks to Clover for this week's voicemail! Next week we’re reading chapter twenty-four, Sectumsempra, through the theme of Regret with special guest Nadia Bolz-Weber.
It’s two sickles to join S.P.E.W., and only a dollar to join our Patreon for extra bloopers every week! Please consider helping us fill our Gringotts vault so we can continue to make this show.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, Vanessa here. I wanted to let you know about a little class that I'm running. |
| 0:05.5 | It is just going to be me and we are just going to be doing sacred reading practices on Sunday nights |
| 0:11.3 | with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone. We are going to meet for six weeks this summer on Sunday |
| 0:17.0 | evenings. We're going to enjoy the heat and the sun and the light and each other's company and |
| 0:24.0 | each class we're going to do one or two sacred reading practices and it's really just about |
| 0:28.1 | community and discipline and believing that the sacred reading practices can change us and do |
| 0:34.7 | magical work on us. And we're going to work our way through Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone |
| 0:40.4 | over six weeks together just through Sparklitz. I hope you can join me. It's a really affordable class |
| 0:46.8 | and I'm imagining it just as lovely and I know that it will be even lovely with your presence. |
| 0:52.5 | Find out more at notsorryworks.com |
| 0:58.3 | Chapter 23 |
| 1:03.6 | Horcruxes |
| 1:05.2 | Harry could feel the Felix Felices wearing off as he crept back into the castle. The front door had |
| 1:11.7 | remained unlocked for him but on the third floor he met peeves and only narrowly avoided. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm Caspar Tercyle and I'm Vanessa Zoltan and this is Harry Potter and the Sacred Text. |
| 1:23.8 | Hey Caspar, do you think that Fort Collins Colorado is called Fort Collins because the children |
| 1:31.6 | of Fort Collins are so good at building pillow forts? I thought it was named off to Mystic Collins |
| 1:36.8 | from Pride and Prejudice but who knows? I like that except I hate the idea that Mr. Collins |
| 1:42.8 | would get a town named after him. Either way what I do know is that we have a sacred reading |
| 1:48.2 | group that it's the Sleeping Dragons run by Elizabeth Scofideo and if you want to join the |
| 1:53.6 | Fort Collins Reading Group or any other local reading group around the world go to Harry Potter |
| 1:58.2 | Sacred Text for its slash groups. So Caspar, I taught high school English for a year in Los Angeles |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Vanessa Zoltan, Casper ter Kuile & Ariana Nedelman and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.